What's your Ti's name and how/where did you place it.

Hi Topher.
After 3 years of sailing my TI, I finally came up with a suitable name for this amazing craft.
Betelgeuse (the Hobie TI not to be confused with BeetleJuice the movie ghost).

Known scientific facts.

“A semi regular variable red super star that can outshine others.”
Probably due to its versatility to perform under sail, pedal or paddle.

“It is classified as a pulsating red supergiant with periods of stableness.”
The stableness occurs in the garage, in water it surely pulsates.

“Only about 13% of its energy is visible to human eyes.”
Much of its time is spent in the garage or out of sight over the horizon.

“Betelgeuse is a very large and cool star classified as a red supergiant of M2Iab class.”
That speaks for itself.

“It could easily be over 400 light years from you at a given time.”
It is just so dam fast under sail and pedal.

“Betelgeuse is surrounded by a circumstellar envelope composed of matter ejected from the star.”
This occurred when I capsized and the wife and I were ejected.

“Multiple-aperture interferometers are now used to capture speckled images, which are synthesized using Fourier analysis to produce a portrait of high resolution. It was this methodology that identified the hotspots on Betelgeuse.”
The hotspots would include carbon mast, furling main, mirage drive, akas and amas.

“Betelgeuse is travelling supersonically through the interstellar medium at a speed of 30 km per second creating a bow shock.”
It certainly feels fast sitting so close to the water and being covered in spray.

“The most likely END scenario is that the supergiant will continue to burn (through the water?) and fuse elements until its core is iron, at which point Betelgeuse will explode as a type II supernova in possibly 100,000 years.”
Until then we will continue to enjoy this magic versatile red supergiant called Betelgeuse.

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Cheers, Brian in South Australia
Tandem Island -

Registration of Islands in South Australia.
For those down under, a friend was just fined AUD 600 for unregistered small tinny by Marine & Harbours.
The rule here is any vessel, any size, powered by a motor, must be registered.
There is a temporary exemption for Kayaks with electric motors.

I hope you guys in Hawaii don't get caught having only a recalled discussion with Coast Guard to rely on in court.

Cheers,
Brian

My wife has a cutting machine for crafting, and she cut out vinyl letters for me a couple years ago, they are still going strong.


I cleaned the hull really well, sprayed a base coat of Krylon Plastic clear coat onto the plastic hull, then place the letters over the dry clear coat, then I sprayed a heavy coat of clear coat over the letters to seal the edges well. I think it would be difficult to get the letters off now.

After putting on 2 sets of vinyl registration numbers without the clear coat, and having them just fall off within a few months. I did a similar clear coat with my vinyl registration numbers on the hull, they are also still going strong as well.

On my first two TI's I had the registration numbers spray painted on ( I used stencils), because I didn't think the vinyl numbers would stay on. What a pain that was and it didn't hold up at all.

The name of my boat is the Ultimate Tandem Island (the word Island is replaced with a pic of an Island)
Hope this helps
Bob

My TI is called SIC EM which doesn't mean much initially, but funding came from selling my Subaru STI, which bore that as as licence plate. There was a great TV advert where a girl had ants crawling over her knickers, and calls her pet anteater, "sic 'em Rex" (Subarus like mine while officially WRXs, are called Rexes)

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Tony Stott
2012 Tandem Island "SIC EM" with Hobie spinnaker

"HUEY", DEWEY", and "LOUIE", one name on each hull.

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Fair Skies, Max.